Example sentence:
James decided that it would be wise to defer buying a new
car until after he graduated from college.

Did you know?
There are two words spelled "defer" in English. The other
"defer," which means "to submit to another's wishes or opinion"
(as in "I defer to your superior expertise"), is derived from
the Latin verb "deferre." The "defer" we're featuring today is
derived from Latin "differre," which itself has several meanings
including "to postpone" and "to differ." Not surprisingly,
"differre" is also the source of our word "differ," meaning "to
be different." In fact, at one time there were two "differ"
homographs in English; four and five hundred years ago "differ"
could also mean "to put off" (and could be pronounced with the
stress on the last syllable) in the same way as "defer."